Stampede2

TACC's Flagship Supercomputer

Stampede2 is the flagship supercomputer at The University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). A strategic national resource, Stampede2 provides high-performance computing capabilities to thousands of researchers across the U.S. It entered full production in Fall 2017 as an 18 petaflop system that builds on the successes of the original Stampede cluster it replaced. Stampede2 features 4,200 Knights Landing (KNL) nodes — the second generation of processors based on Intel's Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture —and 1,736 Intel Xeon Skylake nodes.

Stampede2 was deployed by TACC in conjunction with vendor partners Dell Inc., Intel Corporation, and Cray Inc., and is operated by a team of cyberinfrastructure experts at TACC, UT Austin, Clemson University, Cornell University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, Indiana University, and Ohio State University.

Stampede2 is generously funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through award ACI-1540931.